Warren Farrell Quotes
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From these biased studies come biased social policy. Hundreds of millions of dollars to enforce sanctions against fathers who don’t pay mothers; almost nothing to enforce sanctions against mothers who don’t allow fathers to see children.
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Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.
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Social policy that reunites father and child must always confront itself with the question, 'Are we paying dads to stay, or to go away?' If a single mother receives more money when the father isn’t around than when he is around, there will be fewer fathers around. The government will become her substitute husband.
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The ridicule is pressure to consider ourselves less important than someone even more precious: A baby is more precious than a mother; a woman is more precious than a man.
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I am always someone who follows the research more than my self-interest. It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men. I've gone from being quite wealthy, when I was defending women, to being quite poor defending men.
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Why did virtually every culture reward its men for enduring violence? So it would have a cadre of people available to protect it in war.
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A family that knows how to play together has the tools to stay together.
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When we speak of mom winning custody or of dad getting visitation time, we speak of someone winning, someone losing. When we speak of mom or dad spending 'parent time' with a child, we speak of two parents, not a parent versus a visitor.
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The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.
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When we add the devaluation of male values to the demonizing of male sexuality, many boys feel like a pervert before they know who they are.
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All of this is men’s genetic heritage. However, men’s genetic heritage is in conflict with their genetic future.
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When either sex suppresses the expression of feelings, it’s almost always b/c they don’t feel there is a safe environment to express them.
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When a government requires a man to support a child he was tricked into creating, that government subsidizes fraud. No. It is worse than that: It subsidizes the woman using a man’s body for 18-21 years without his consent.
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We would not think of allowing a man to determine a woman’s life merely because a fetus he helped create was in her womb; then why would we allow a woman to determine a man’s life merely because a fetus he helped create is in her womb?
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When we suggest that men are at the top because men discriminate, we miss the point. Men are at the top of the work hierarchy because work has been primarily men's responsibility.
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All defensive responses to criticism are natural. (It is natural to think of our own perspective before someone else’s.)
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Contract killings never get recorded as a woman killing a man.
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The people considered the most in need of protection were women and children. The sex considered most disposable was men – or males....
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Creating fatherhood means creating a major psychological shift. Both sexes find it's difficult to fully share the psychological responsibility for the other sex's traditional role - especially when the other sex is around. – page 90.
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A part-time working woman makes $1.10 for every dollar made by her male counterpart.
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One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.
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Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.
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Unemployment to a man is the psychological equivalent of rape to a woman.
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The men who are successful have become the most dependent on success to attract love. When this man loses his success, he often fears he will lose love.